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The Natural Philosopher[_2_]

On 09/09/2019 11:47, wrote:
I'm trying to renew our house insurance (for reasons un-related the house is in my wifes name.

After trying unsuccessfully to do this on line as their site is ****e I reluctantly phone them

Listen to 2 minutes of waffle

Get human. Give him details of the insurance policy number, house name and address and wife's name when he asks me for her date of birth.

What ?

Why ? Data protection is the answer.

WTF has this to do with data protection. I'm not asking for any 'data' in fact I'm giving some.If I walked into their office with a copy of the renewal notice and a credit card would they ask me for her date of birth?

Data Protection Act. Its the new shibboleth up there with Health and Safety.

On a similar note I wished to add three drivers to my car insurance (two sons and a daughter. All are mature, have their own cars and their own car insurances and have clean accident free record and clean licenses. I only want to do this as a back stop and wanted an idea of the cost

First question, after giving all of the above info, is how many miles a per year will each do ??

Next question what is their names ?

What?

I'm only looking for the cost of doing this. Doesn't matter. Data Protection Act again invoked.

I just gave up

Thats why I insure with NFU.

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